Kiyoharu is God

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I saw that song listed on itunes a few days ago but couldn't find any information about what it meant.
This should be interesting...since they re-recorded most of their classics on Zippy Gappy Zombies last year based on the top voted fan favorites, I can only assume that they'll be picking some other deeper cuts.  Here are a few I want them to work on:

nani kara nani made
flow
Butterfly
toroimerei
MADAMADA
kimi wa itsumademo
I Cult You

Here are a few I expect them to work on but would probably be just meh about:

himawari (they re-recorded this on Forever Love in 2014 already and it wasn't better than the original)
everlast
white,daydream
Most of what's on Forever Love

12012 will restart activities. Further details on future activities will be announced later.
 
宮脇渉 (Wataru)
https://twitter.com/wataru_12012
 
酒井洋明 (Hiroaki)
https://twitter.com/hsakai12012
 
齋藤紳一郎 (Shinchirou)
https://twitter.com/s_mokichi
 
塩谷朋之 (Tomoyuki)
https://twitter.com/tEnya_solioquy
 
須賀勇介 (Yuusuke)
https://twitter.com/yusuke_suga
 
川内亨 (Tooru)
https://twitter.com/12012_toru

Shit....this one is heartbreaking and tragic. I just watched a few of his livestreams he did recently and he was amazing and on-point as always. I even got to say hello to him via the live chat during a steam just to send him some love from a fan outside of Japan. He actually read it, since it was one of the messages in English, and responded a bit.

I'm sure we all have our favorite songs by him. Song of a Lunatic is mine and the extended live performance is one of the rare cases where I believe it rivals the actual studio version. The CD release of this concert has this song going on for longer at 12 minutes and every second of it has always been magic to my ears.
 

Rest in peace Yuji!

And here are the recent livestreams. He just did one 5 days ago too!
 
 
 

Those albums were topped ages ago. You guys need to quit living in the past.

I feel like this deserves to be mentioned here: on 2020/04/25, the 1-year anniversary of Michirou's death, some of his fellow musicians got together for an epic livestream performance celebrating his work. Thankfully the footage is still online in the YT archives of livehouse APIA40. It's a pretty long live so I haven't watched all of it yet, but it seems to be pretty outstanding.
 
The musicians involved and their connection to Michirou (where applicable):
中村達也 (Nakamura Tatsuya) - played in THE STALIN and TOUCH-ME
山本久土 (Yamamoto Hisato) - played in M.J.Q and Shidamyoujin
クハラカズユキ (Kuhara Kazuyuki) - played in M.J.Q
スガダイロー (Suga Dairou) - pianist, I don't know how he's connected but he is associated with Tatsuya for sure
西村雄介 (Nishimura Yuusuke) - played in STALIN, THE END and on some Michirou solo works
 
(The craziest thing out of all of this is that I didn't realize until now that Tatsuya used to be one of THE STALIN's drummers, haha.)
 
 

New MV for THE BEYOND which is a nice little history recap.   

What's wrong with this song? How is it different from the previous release?
 
Like I could tell the difference between something off ZEKU compared to KARMA or Houyoku compared to Kyutai as those albums have distinctly different sounds. But how is this song so radically different from the last album they released?

What's wrong with this song? How is it different from the previous release?
 
Like I could tell the difference between something off ZEKU compared to KARMA or Houyoku compared to Kyutai as those albums have distinctly different sounds. But how is this song so radically different from the last album they released?

https://natalie.mu/music/news/375436
 
They've also opened their instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/lunaseaofficial/

https://natalie.mu/music/news/375436
 
They've also opened their instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/lunaseaofficial/

Miyavi has been doing live streams with his family on Instagram in support of the album and to just have fun. Just wanted to post this clip as I love his cover of this song, and because I think this clip is cute:
 
 
This account has a few of the streams saved: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG8Ppo_AOklx92NWPAWhkSQ

The full version of their PV was finally posted it. There is alot of animation in this video which probably took one animator a long time to finish. The results I think are pretty spectacular!


If you want to order the album internationally, simply write them through their contact form and they'll work with you. I did and received the album promptly!
http://cockroach.jp/contact

https://natalie.mu/music/news/375436
 
They've also opened their instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/lunaseaofficial/

https://natalie.mu/music/news/375436
 
They've also opened their instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/lunaseaofficial/

https://natalie.mu/music/news/375436
 
They've also opened their instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/lunaseaofficial/

Those albums were topped ages ago. You guys need to quit living in the past.

https://natalie.mu/music/news/361792
 
https://aramajapan.com/featured/tokyo-jihen-reunites/103561/
 
Releasing a new song today called 選ばれざる国民 (ERABAREZARU KOKUMIN) and have announced a tour.

Another lyric video this time for the song Holy Nights
 
 
I actually really like this song. Catchy.

Those albums were topped ages ago. You guys need to quit living in the past.